I tell you, for the first time in a while, NBA is pretty spicy.

They have so much talent.

So many teams are in play this year.

You mentioned the Thunder and Spurs.

They're the clear favorites at plus 260.

No surprise there.

They were the two best teams throughout the season last year, you know, until the playoffs and the Knicks got the better end of it there.

You got Ole Miss and Texas.

The LA Dodgers are down 2-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers, John.

Yeah.

Uh, Brewers are for real.

We, we knew it, right? I mean, all season they've been a great team.

Dodgers though, of course, you know, biggest payroll in baseball, so much talent on both sides of the ball.

I- and they have been favored all season.

First time that they're not the favorites to win the World Series.

But I don't know if the lines, uh, uh, kinda reflect that as well.

Man, what do you see from this game?

Yeah, number two Georgia opened as a one-and-a-half point favorite.

The line quickly moved to Alabama, who's number six in the country at two minus one for Bama as a small favorite.

So while that one-and-a-half to one-and-a-half is a three-point move in general, that's not really that significant since one-and-a-half isn't a key number like three, six, or seven.

Since the move...

Betters are on Georgia as an underdog.

71% of bets, 60% of money.

What do you see on the betting lines here? Probably all Dallas.

Anything else as far as the week's matchups go that have an interesting spread or anything like that?

Yeah, one that jumps out is Chiefs Dolphins.

Kansas City looks like, you know, the champions.

They're back after a very disappointing year in 2025.

They start 2-0.

Dolphins, they're meeting the low expectations that everyone had coming into the season for them.

So Kansas City, 11.5-point favorites on the road.

They have got Florida this week, right?

Some really high-scoring games.

Yeah.

Uh, none more than, than the Bears.

They dropped 59 points on the Panthers last week.

Uh, that game shot over its total easily.

And, uh, we've talked about it before, but often, um, bettors will, if it happened last week, they are expecting that something will continue the following week.

So they bet the over in that Bears-Panthers game.

So, uh, as far as some of the other, uh, more heavily betted games, where do we see the action in the NFL this week?

That's that's going to impact how people are betting.

Yeah, and what's interesting to me about this is this is a unique situation.

This has never really happened before.

So I was talking to the trading team.

They're not making an adjustment for the different approaches from each team traveling because we don't have enough information.

We don't know if one strategy is superior to the other.

We would need to have this happen many more times to really, you know, make a definitive like oh yeah all right well this is gonna be worth half a point or something but right now looking at the game rams open two and a half they've been bet up to three and a half point favorites most of that line movement is coming from just like the offseason moves that the rams made including trading for miles garrett i know they signed aaron donald but he is not uh gonna play this week he is not traveling with the team either i don't believe so uh rams they're the favorites to win the super bowl they're very popular team to cover this week and uh tomorrow night 60 of money is on la uh moving that line like i said from two and a half to three and a half

Yeah.

And, but you know, there, there's, There's certain people that love one conference over the other, but as far as odds go and the money lines and stuff, what are you seeing from the conferences and who is kind of standing out over the others?

Yeah, in ACC, Miami is a minus 150 favorite, and they're getting overwhelming support.

More than 50% of money is on them to win the ACC, which many consider the weakest of the power four conferences.

In the Big 12, it's Texas Tech.

They're a favorite at minus 110.

They're also getting a ton of support.

They have a super easy schedule.

I wonder what that impact has had or what impact that has had on the money lines and the odds.

Yes.

And so they come into this season, lower expectations.

They are underdogs in the opener in Dublin.

TCU opened six and a half.

They've been bet up to seven and a half, so going over the key number is always important, and it's lopsided action.

82% of bets, 88% of the money, uh, so overwhelming support from sharps and the public all saying, "You know what? We saw North Carolina last year.

We saw Bill Belichick." This is not the Patriots.

Now, as far as the favorite, uh, is there already a betting favorite for the national championship? And I'll throw in, you know, where does Indiana fall in this? And of course they don't have, uh, Mendoza this year, but, uh, where, where's, where's, what's that looking like?

Uh, just your thoughts, John, on, on his play, but also, uh, what it's looking like if you're gonna, uh, do something with Scottie this weekend.

Yeah.

Won the FedEx St. Jude Championship by eight shots.

That was the largest margin of victory on tour this year, so he just cruised on Sunday to the win.

He's always a favorite when he plays.

No different this week at plus 275, so the odds are really short.

And bettors never shy away from him.

But, uh, what are we looking at for, uh, preseason week two in the NFL?

Tarik Skubal was on the move, and I couldn't believe where he landed.

[laughs] I mean, the rich get richer, right? The Dodgers, best team in baseball.

They were already the favorites to win the World Series.

Then they get the back-to-back Cy Young winner in Skubal.

Uh, it's a tough pill for baseball fans, you know, outside of LA to, to swallow.

I know, uh, I'm in St. Louis as a Cardinals fan.

Uh, it's, it's tough to see.

[laughs]

What has your attention this week?

week?Yeah, you mentioned the World Cup.

Obviously, that was a fantastic month of high-level soccer.

Uh, Spain-Argentina final was the most bet soccer match in BetMGM history.

There was so much action on this.

There were more bets and money wagered than on any game that was played in the NBA finals, the Stanley Cup finals, the NCAA tournament, last year's World Series.

So, uh, you know, in the US and Canada, is soccer the most important sport? Maybe not, but bettors definitely jumped in when it came to the World Cup, and we saw that play out.

What do you see?

John, what are some popular props in this week's football match-up between BC and Edmonton?

Yeah, the most popular right now is Justin Rankin.

Uh, he is -300 to score a touchdown, which is, uh, pretty steep on the juice.

I- that is gonna be a prop that is popular to add to, like, parlays, right? Because he scored, uh, what's he, at least one touchdown in four or five games.

He leads the AFL with, uh, or CFL, excuse me, with six touchdowns.

So he finds the end zone often, and, uh, people are gonna be on him.

A- I think another one that's gonna, it's really popular is he's +500 to score the first touchdown.

[laughs]

Yep

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even m- we'll see even more action, so, uh, just gonna be all the money's on the US.

All the money's on the over.

The total's sitting at two and a half, and, uh, Balogh and Pulisic are the most bet players to score a goal.

Again, no real surprise there given how both players looked in that first match.

Um, and Balogh, again, he was two to one to score, uh, in their first game.

Wow

Wow

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if the Seahawks can, can lift the Lombardi trophy.

The same bettor, he had 50K on them to make the playoffs.

He had another 50K on them to win the NFC at 28 to 1.

So he's already pocketed 1.5 million.

Yep

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